Jean Singletary arrived in Syracuse in the late 1950s after saying goodbye to her childhood home in Georgia. She moved into Pioneer Homes 67 years ago, and she spent maybe a year living in a different public housing unit before she moved “across the street” in the same complex in 1960, settling in with her children on Weiser Court.
Sixty-six years later, in another century, she’s still in the same spot.
Singletary will be “94 in October,” as she told me. She has been retired for roughly 30 years from a long career of relentlessly hard work that in Syracuse began with cleaning hotel rooms. It ended, when she was in her 60s, with her retirement from the difficult and critically important duties of serving as a home health care aide…